Has it's pluses and minuses. Relatively few witticisms, relatively few songs, and a rather unbelievable plot. The point of the story is Mae's quest to transform from a Wild West dancehall floozy into a high society matron, without giving up too much of her traditional personality. Since it's very difficult for her to accomplish a sufficient make over of her personality, she plans to accomplish her goal largely by buying into high society so that she will be deemed a suitable mate for British petroleum geologist Edward Carrington. But first, she has to say yes to a local cattle and oil baron by day, but cattle rustler by night(a strange combination!). His name is Buck Gonzales, and Mae rolls the dice to decide whether to marry him or not. It comes up go ahead, as long as Buck signs a prenuptial agreement that Mae gets his entire wealth should he die. Just before her wedding day, Mae learns that Buck was shot dead during a rustling excursion. The judge agrees that her prenuptial agreement is valid despite the fact that she didn't wed Buck. For some reason, she takes a liking to petroleum geologist and engineer Carrington, who fails to reciprocate. To show she means business and is a competent cowgirl, she shoots his hat off when he ignores her summons. Then, when he turns around prematurely for her, she lassos him. He's not impressed by these antics, saying he's not interested in her in a romantic way, because she's clearly not of his social class.
Carrington is reassigned by his company to Buenos Aires. So, Mae takes her race horse, Cactus, and her manager, Winslow, with her on a ship to Buenos Aires. Soon, Cactus wins an important race, making Mae a national celebrity. However, she's still looked down by high society women, if not all men, as still being a crude hillbilly. She meets Carrington at the horse race and discovers he is a boyfriend of her arch-enemy, Mrs. Brittony, but still has some fondness for Mae. Later, they argue about whether it's possible for Mae to acquire sufficient culture to satisfy Carrington as a wife, or whether her personality is fixed.
Winslow brokers a deal where Colton, a bankrupt nephew of Mrs. Britton, and Mae will form a marriage of convenience, Colton providing Mae with a measure of high society aurora, and Mae picking up some of his gambling debts. He's a poor compulsive gambler and threatens to dissipate Mae's fortune.
Mae and Colton reestablish themselves in Colton Manor, in Southampton, N.Y.. However, Mrs. Brittony and her friends come visiting with an evil motive: to discredit Mae by providing her with a gigolo from Buenos Ares: the Russian Ivan. However, instead, Ivan kills Colton in a fight over some of Mae's cash. But, it appears he has accomplished his goal, as Mae is initially blamed for the murder, since it was her pistol that was the murder weapon. However, Ivan eventually confesses after a fight with Mae's friend, pointing the finger at Mrs. Brittony as his employer. Presumably, Ivan and Mrs. Brittony are hauled off to jail. Now, Mae is free to try to again romance Carrington, who has since become an earl, and (strangely),has come to visit her(with Mrs. Brittony?).
Mae sings several songs. Early in the film, when associated with the rustler Buck, she sings "He's a Bad Man". and remarks "I'm a good woman for a bad man". Then during her opera, near the end, she sings "Mon Coeur S'oeuvre a ta Voix". At the very end, as Mae is walking down her long spiral staircase, arm in arm with Carrington, she sings triumphantly "Now, I'm a Lady". I didn't detect the listed song "Love is Love".
It seems incredulous that Mae and Carrington kept pursuing each other in the moves from the southern West to Argentina to Southampton, N.Y., with Carrington's apparent attitude that Mae was born to be low class, and could not remake herself to suit him. Her organization of and participation in her private opera seems to have swayed his opinion of her. Apparently, now that he was an earl, he didn't have to work as a geologist, and could travel where he wished. Seems like things would have been much simpler if Mae had married her assistant, Winslow, who went everywhere with her, and had upper crust speech and bearing. Presumably, once Mae settled down to live in luxury with Carrington, Winslow went back to manage her empire.
Carrington is reassigned by his company to Buenos Aires. So, Mae takes her race horse, Cactus, and her manager, Winslow, with her on a ship to Buenos Aires. Soon, Cactus wins an important race, making Mae a national celebrity. However, she's still looked down by high society women, if not all men, as still being a crude hillbilly. She meets Carrington at the horse race and discovers he is a boyfriend of her arch-enemy, Mrs. Brittony, but still has some fondness for Mae. Later, they argue about whether it's possible for Mae to acquire sufficient culture to satisfy Carrington as a wife, or whether her personality is fixed.
Winslow brokers a deal where Colton, a bankrupt nephew of Mrs. Britton, and Mae will form a marriage of convenience, Colton providing Mae with a measure of high society aurora, and Mae picking up some of his gambling debts. He's a poor compulsive gambler and threatens to dissipate Mae's fortune.
Mae and Colton reestablish themselves in Colton Manor, in Southampton, N.Y.. However, Mrs. Brittony and her friends come visiting with an evil motive: to discredit Mae by providing her with a gigolo from Buenos Ares: the Russian Ivan. However, instead, Ivan kills Colton in a fight over some of Mae's cash. But, it appears he has accomplished his goal, as Mae is initially blamed for the murder, since it was her pistol that was the murder weapon. However, Ivan eventually confesses after a fight with Mae's friend, pointing the finger at Mrs. Brittony as his employer. Presumably, Ivan and Mrs. Brittony are hauled off to jail. Now, Mae is free to try to again romance Carrington, who has since become an earl, and (strangely),has come to visit her(with Mrs. Brittony?).
Mae sings several songs. Early in the film, when associated with the rustler Buck, she sings "He's a Bad Man". and remarks "I'm a good woman for a bad man". Then during her opera, near the end, she sings "Mon Coeur S'oeuvre a ta Voix". At the very end, as Mae is walking down her long spiral staircase, arm in arm with Carrington, she sings triumphantly "Now, I'm a Lady". I didn't detect the listed song "Love is Love".
It seems incredulous that Mae and Carrington kept pursuing each other in the moves from the southern West to Argentina to Southampton, N.Y., with Carrington's apparent attitude that Mae was born to be low class, and could not remake herself to suit him. Her organization of and participation in her private opera seems to have swayed his opinion of her. Apparently, now that he was an earl, he didn't have to work as a geologist, and could travel where he wished. Seems like things would have been much simpler if Mae had married her assistant, Winslow, who went everywhere with her, and had upper crust speech and bearing. Presumably, once Mae settled down to live in luxury with Carrington, Winslow went back to manage her empire.